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Free resources for the organisations families turn to

Printable checklists, plain-English guides and dated UK figures — free, no accounts, no sign-ups. Link them or print them; nothing is expected in return.

If your organisation supports people through a death — families, clients or your own staff — everything on this page is yours to use. Link it from your resources page, print it for a bereavement pack, hand it to a family across a desk. No permission needed, no logo required, nothing asked for back.

Valoren is a commercial site, not a charity — it sells family handover kits, a household dossier and wills to people getting their affairs in order. That paid work funds the free work; nothing on this page costs anything, and it stays that way.

Figures checked against gov.uk 17 SEPT 2026 · The Figure Watch

The printable shelf

Eight documents a family can hold. Each one downloads in a single click from its own page — no account, no email address — and prints cleanly. These are the ones bereavement packs and links pages use most.

Blank Executor ChecklistThe first week through the first year of estate administration, time-phased, with date fields.Open Death Folder ChecklistWhat a family should be able to find in one place, before they ever need it.Open Blank Digital Estate InventoryThe fill-in companion to the digital legacy guide — accounts, devices, where things live.Open Funeral Wishes FormA structured place to record what someone actually wants — before anyone has to guess.Open Letter of Wishes TemplateThe personal letter that sits alongside a will — guidance and a blank structure.Open Original Documents RegisterWhere the will, deeds and certificates physically are — the register families wish existed.Open Trusted Person First Contact CardThe one card that tells a trusted person what to do first, kept where they'll find it.Open Digital Legacy BriefA nine-minute plain-English guide to passwords and online accounts after a death.Open

Kept current, so your link doesn't rot

The quiet risk of a links page is that things go stale on it. So the figures here are checked against GOV.UK and carry the date they were last verified, and the guidance is updated when the underlying rules move — that maintenance is most of what Valoren is.

The checking is automated. SONAR re-reads every figure against the department that sets it and every contact page against the institution's own site, on a schedule, and logs each change on The Figure Watch.

If something you've linked changes materially, email me and I'll tell you exactly what changed and when.

One person, easy to reach

Valoren is built and run by one person — Joel Patterson. That means questions get answered by the person who wrote the thing you're asking about, usually the same day, and yes and no both come quickly.

Write to joel@valoren.uk — or see who's behind Valoren.

Free tools and dated figures

For the questions families ask you across a desk. Who inherits without a will, how long probate takes, what it costs — answered by tools that need no sign-up, and figures that carry their GOV.UK source and the date they were last checked.

Intestacy CheckerWho inherits when there's no will — the statutory order, asked as questions.Open Probate TimelineHow long each stage really takes, stage by stage.Open Probate Cost CalculatorCourt fees and typical professional costs, estimated honestly.Open Excepted Estate CheckerWhether an IHT400 is actually needed — many estates are excepted.Open Government form walkthroughsPlain-English walkthroughs of PA1P, IHT400, LPA forms and 76 more.Open UK estate figures, datedProbate fees, IHT thresholds, funeral costs — each with its GOV.UK source and the date last checked.Open

FAQ

What organisations ask, answered.

Yes — print them, copy them, put them in whatever pack you give families. There is nothing to ask permission for and nothing expected back. The only request: print them unaltered, so the version a family holds matches the version being kept current here.

Valoren is a commercial site, not a charity — it sells family handover kits, a household dossier and wills, and that is how the free work is funded. But everything on this page is genuinely free, with no account and no sign-up, and it stays that way. Free resources are how families find us; they only work if they are actually free.

Keeping them current is most of the job. Figures are checked against GOV.UK and carry the date they were last verified; guidance is updated when the underlying rules move. If something your page links to ever changes materially, email and I'll gladly tell you what changed and when.

England and Wales, unless a page says otherwise. Scotland and Northern Ireland differ on intestacy, probate (confirmation), and some deadlines — where a resource covers them separately, the page says so plainly.

Ask. It's one person here, not a partnerships department, which mostly means yes is fast and no is honest. If a checklist needs a different emphasis for the families you support, tell me what they need — it may already be half-built.

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